• Understand and distinguish the components of the Anthropological perspective (i.e. non-ethnocentric, cultural relativism, holistic, cross-cultural comparison)
• Be familiar with the subfield (and emphasis areas) of Anthropology
• Be able to define displacement, ethnography, enculturation, cultural shock, arbitrary,
• Definition of culture and its link as the central concept of Anthropology
• How does your book define culture (basic components of culture)?
• Be familiar with the theory of Postmodern Anthropology, Functionalism (Malinowski), 19th century evolutionism theory, neoevolutionism (Leslie White & Julian Steward), psychology anthropology (Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict)
• Be familiar with Franz Boas and American Historicism theory (collection of empirical data)
• Be familiar with Margaret Mead’s work in Samoa
• Identify the unilineal evolutionary theory stages
• Components and techniques of fieldwork (including the importance of language) and the Boas and Malinowski’s contributions to fieldwork
• Be familiar with the components of ethnographic research and the data gathering technique used by many anthropologists.
• Be familiar and be able to identify a free morpheme and bound morphemes
• Understand what the carrying capacity of the environment means and how it relates to anthropological studies
• Understand and identify the 5 major food gathering strategies
• Be familiar with Inuit as an example of a food gathering strategy
• Be familiar with the applied field methods discussed in your text
• Be able to define pastoralist, locavore, hunting and gathering, transhumance, horticulture
• Understand the change related to the use of the term ‘primitive’ cultures
• Understand how goods and services and the cultural relevance are pre-requisites for market exchange
• Understand the role and types of reciprocity and definition and examples of redistribution
• As learned in your text, the definition and function of a family and marriage
• As learned in your text, the principles of kinship classification and formation of descent groups
• Identify concepts specific to mate selection
• Be familiar with the general rule of how societies divide division of labor by gender
• Be familiar with explanations caused by gender ideology
• Identify Max Weber’s 3 major criteria for measuring social inequality
• What type of society is social inequality mostly found?
• Identify types of societies based on levels of social inequality
• Differences between caste and class societies
• What does the conflict theory interpretation of inequality say
• Be familiar with the mechanisms of social control (formal and informal)4
• Be able to define oaths and ordeals
• Identify types of political organizations
• Understand the different functions of religion and types of religious organizations
• Define how your text defines art
• Describe the Libertarian Theater
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